“…Loneliness needs to be seen for what it is: a public health issue. Rural people, by nature, have to be resilient and self-reliant, and the fact is that no Government can do everything. I must mention the charity A Listening Ear, which in my community, movingly, has a programme called “No One Dies Alone”.”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying98th of 3929.0
- Cancer387th of 6413.0
- Heart disease & stroke178th of 4073.0
- Mental health665th of 8903.0
- Public health & prevention427th of 7003.0
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What they’ve said
“…We are here not to relitigate the substance of the assisted dying Bill, but to consider a profound change to the way we in this place carry out our duties as legislators.”
Progression of Bills through Parliament · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We cannot let the emotional baggage of the assisted dying Bill override proper parliamentary procedure.…”
Progression of Bills through Parliament · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The position the hon. Member is putting forward is that we would somehow stop the assisted dying Bill progressing in Holyrood. That is simply not the case. I believe there is a date set for this to be further discussed in Holyrood.”
Draft Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedule 5) Order 2026 · 2026-02-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Dumfries and Galloway constituency have done a power of work to make men aware of prostate disease and prostate cancer—just as well, given that prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men. One in eight of us will be diagnosed with it, and that figure rises to one in four for black men.”
Incontinence · 2025-06-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The hon. Gentleman is right. These are not free trade agreements in the normal sense of the words: they are frittering around the edges, as he said himself. The difficulty for beef farmers in Dumfries and Galloway is that prices are rising, which is partly down to a drop in stock because of costs and things like that,…”
Business and the Economy · 2025-05-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
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